On one side stands his SEC West champion Tigers. On the other side is suddenly-hot Alabama.

"We've got a little Iron Bowl at the Hoover Met,'' Mummey said, conjuring up visions of SEC Tournament pasts for Regions Park, where Auburn will play in the tourney for the first time since 2003, and where Alabama hopes to beat the Tigers in the you-better-set-your-alarm-clock 9:30 a.m. opener.

Both teams come into the tournament on a roll.

Auburn spent the weekend sweeping Ole Miss in Oxford-University Stadium by winning the SEC West title on Friday night and finishing off the Rebels in an 11-1 win Saturday.

The Tigers won 11 of its last 15 SEC games to finish the regular season 39-17 overall and 20-10 in the league. The 20 regular-season league victories are the most in Auburn history.

Alabama came into the weekend looking to secure a spot in the tournament. The Tide made sure it got in by sweeping Tennessee in Knoxville, finishing off the Vols with a 9-7 victory Saturday. The Tide won six of its last seven SEC games, including its last five.

"Alabama is playing very, very well,'' said Auburn coach John Pawlowski. "It's going to be exciting."

Auburn is the No. 2 seed and Alabama, which is 34-21 overall and 15-15 in the SEC, is the No. 7 seed in Hoover. Florida won the regular season championship and is the No. 1 seed.

Auburn and Alabama split four games during the regular season. Alabama won two of three in Tuscaloosa in games that counted in the SEC standings. Auburn beat Alabama in Montgomery in a game that didn't count in the standings.

The Tigers will get another chance in its first SEC Tournament appearance in seven years.

"Getting to play Alabama makes it even sweeter,'' Mummey said.

Auburn's weekend was noteworthy for more than winning the West. Ole Miss hadn't been swept in 53 consecutive series until Auburn did it. Mummey was one of the reasons why Auburn had success. He drove in six in the three games, including four in Saturday's finale, two coming on a first-inning home run. The Tigers scored all sorts of ways -- two squeeze plays worked -- as did the homer and various doubles and singles. Auburn had 34 hits the last two games and the Tigers outscored the Rebels 34-8 over the weekend.

The Tigers also pitched well. Starter Grant Dayton allowed a run in five innings to improve to 8-2. Michael Hurst allowed a hit in four innings. That followed Friday's pitching that featured Slade Smith shutting out the Rebels over the final 5 2/3 innings.

"There's a lot of confidence in the club right now,'' Pawlowski said.

Alabama was also impressive. Pitchers Jimmy Nelson, who held the Vols to three runs on eight hits in an 11-3 complete-game victory Thursday, and Nathan Kilcrease, who allowed two runs on six hits in nine innings Friday, certainly caught the attention of Tennessee coach Todd Raleigh.

"I guarantee you, if you polled all the SEC coaches, they'd rather play a lot of other teams because of their pitching,'' Raleigh said. "Their first two guys were as good as we've seen, back-to-back, all year.

"I think Alabama really bodes better for a regional with those two pitchers, because if you win the first two, you're in really good shape.''

Alabama was helped Saturday when Josh Rutledge hit a two-run home run to highlight a five-run third inning and drove in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning with a sacrifice fly. He extended his hitting streak to 14 games. He has a hit in 29 of 30 conference games.

"We got hits when we needed them, and we played great defense when we needed it,'' Rutledge said. 

The Auburn-Alabama game will be followed by No. 6-seed Ole Miss against No. 3 South Carolina. The third game will be No. 8-seed LSU against No. 1 Florida at 4:30 p.m. No. 5-seed Vanderbilt faces No. 4 Arkansas in Wednesday's finale.